
The activists entered the animal units through holes they punched in the roof, removing 82 beagle puppies and 26 rabbits. Harlan Interfauna is raided by Keith Mann, Barry Horne and Danny Attwood, as part of a small ALF cell. Template:See 1990 File:Hornebeagles.jpgĪLF removing 82 beagles and 26 rabbits from Interfauna in Cambridge on St Patrick's Night 1990. Įquipment, computer and records are smashed after the ALF raid Texas Tech University, with an estimated $700,000 in damages.
Timed incendiary devices are left at a meat company on the 13th April, the ALF claim the fire. On the 2nd, one of the laboratories at the Veterans Administration hospital is set on fire, a part of the University of Arizona, causing $500,000 worth of damage. The company are a poultry distribution company in Santa Clara, California. Melani, which is set on fire causing $200,000 in damages. "ALF" and "murderers" is spray-painted at V. Two years and two weeks after 500 animals after taken from the University of California, an ALF arson is claimed at the Animal Diagnostics Laboratory, causing $5.1 million, one of the largest and most costly actions yet for the movement. The University of Oregon laboratory is attacked in Eugene with $120,000 worth of damage. The Universiy said "years of medical research were lost". After the raid, which the ALF filmed ( video), eight of the seventeen projects involving the use of animals at the laboratory, which were currently going on, were stopped, because of the footage. Sixteen ALF activists take 468 animals, including a five-week-old macaque named Britches, after raiding the University of California, and cause $700,000 in damages. He and 467 other animals were released along with a videotape of the raid. File:Eyesewn.jpgīritches, a five-week-old macaque, was left alone with his eyes sewn shut at the University of California, Riverside. The City of Hope National Medical Center is raided by the ALF totaling $400,000 in costs. PETA then released the documentary Unnecessary Fuss, causing the chief veterinarian to lose his job. The Head Injury Lab of the University of Pennsylvania is raided by the ALF with $60,000 worth of damage caused, and 60 hours worth of video tapes stolen which shows researchers laughing and joking as they cause brain damage to baboons. Twenty-four cats were removed by the ALF cell she had founded, with some of the cats suffering from back legs that were crippled. She was directed by Ronnie Lee to a training camp for activists, who at the time was working for the BUAV, before returning back to Maryland and breaking into Howard University. The president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, writes that an activist codenamed "Valerie" flew to England, after the publicity triggered by the Silver Spring monkeys case. The animals were then returned five days later, after learning that legal action against the researcher could not proceed without the monkeys. They were kept there are after a researcher from the Institute of Behavioral Research in Silver Spring, Maryland, had allegedly acted in violation of the animal cruelty legislation for laboratory practice. In Monkey Business, by Kathy Snow Guillermo, she writes that the first ALF action in the United States was the removal of the so-called Silver Spring monkeys, who were being cared for by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in a safehouse.
from the Institute of Behavioral Research, that were being cared for by PETA.
1980s Main article: Britches (monkey) 1981 File:Silver-Spring-monkey.jpg It was reported that in early operations by the ALF, individuals targeted slaughterhouses, furriers, butchers shops, circuses, breeders and fast-food restaurants, causing £250,000 in the first year alone. He then collected up the remaining activists from the Band of Mercy upon his release, including another two douzen new willing activists, 30 in all, and the Animal Liberation Front was born. There had been daily demonstrations at the court uring their trial, including Lee's local Labour MP Ivor Clemitson. Two years after Ronnie Lee and Cliff Goodman had been charged for the raid on the Oxford Laboratory Animal Colonies in Bicester, as part of the Band of Mercy, the "Bicester Two" as they were known Lee emerged even more militant than before. Background 1976 File:ALF logo.svgĪLF logo Main article: Animal Liberation Front#Origins